A valuable form of artistic expression, popular music embraces all facets of the human experience. It blends art with contemporary culture and tradition to make relevant the ever changing now.
APME organizes annual international conferences to celebrate, critique and explore teaching, learning, researching, creating, and performing in popular music. The conferences welcomes people with interests in higher popular music education (at colleges and universities), popular music in elementary and secondary schools, researchers, industry professionals and performers.
The Journal of Popular Music Education (JPME) seeks to define, delimit, debunk, disseminate and disrupt practice and discourse in and around popular music education. Popular music education takes place at the intersections of identity realization, learning, teaching, enculturation, entrepreneurship, creativity, a global multimedia industry and innumerable instances of music making as leisure.
The Association for Popular Music Education is an international music education organization whose mission is to “promote and advance popular music at all levels of education both in the classroom and beyond.” APME members include anyone whose interests lie in or adjacent to popular music education, including professional musicians, K–12 teachers, industry professionals, music teacher…